Feeds

Other devices

See also

Universalis with AvantGo

AvantGo was a service that allowed you to download pages
from the Web for use on mobile phones and other hand-held devices. It closed
down at the end of June 2009.

Alternatives to using AvantGo

On their site, AvantGo are promoting
"Snac, a fun new mobile widget application". It is not yet clear
how well this service will work and how long it will last, and we don't
know if it will be possible to add information channels such as Universalis
to it. We are in communication with Snac, Inc. about this.

One person has told us that he is now using Plucker
in the same way that he used to use AvantGo (WAP
Review has an article about this). We haven't tried Plucker ourselves,
but you may want to investigate this. Like any other site-downloader, Plucker
will want to know where to start looking at the Universalis site. See Starting
Locations for details.

We also recommend that you look at our Downloads
section. This has downloadable Universalis programs for many mobile devices,
as well as for PCs and Macs.

The advantages of a Universalis program as opposed to just visiting our
web site include:

Layout designed specially for
your device.

No need to connect to the Internet.

No limit on the dates you can
view.

You can try out any of the programs free of charge for a limited period.
When you decide that you definitely like Universalis in this form, then
you'll have to buy a licence. This isn't very expensive, and one licence
will cover all the Universalis programs you use, on your mobile phone, your
laptop, and your desktop PC.

Starting locations

Services that retrieve parts of a web site need to know where to start
reading the site.

To get a whole week of Universalis at a time, you should tell your service
to start here. For just one day
at a time, it should start here.